World's largest green hotel and what it says about Chennai

​A map to accompany the key card, a captive mine in Italy to supply 10 lakh sq ft of travertine marble, a parikrama around the Chola-era inspired building before you enter its portals, a grand staircase that, if not the largest, is certainly the widest in any hotel in the country and which, when not serving as a background for giddy tourists posing for photographs, is meant to awe.

ITC's Grand Chola is unashamedly India's largest hotel with 600 keys, 10 restaurants, a columnless hall that is 30,000 sq ft and can house 2,000 guests for a reception, high-speed elevators that disperse 600 guests in under a minute, and has an average room size at 625 sq ft of unabashed luxury.